Sri Ramana Maharshi on BE As You Are

Q: How shall I Realise the Self?
B: Why should you realise anything? Why not BE or remain as you are?

Q: I am very eager to Realise the Self – as quickly as possible. Please encourage my ambition. Please tell me how I shall Realise the Self.
B: Only by BEing as you ARE.

Q: I don’t understand.
B: Remain without thinking and without being overcome by drowsiness or torpor.

Q: Impossible.
B: Practise vichara.

Q: It seems difficult.
B: Remove the idea of difficulty and it becomes easy.

Q: Then is God’s Grace also not needed?
B: Sincere and pertinacious effort to introvert the mind will win Grace automatically. The deeper the introversion of mind accomplished, the more is the Grace won. There will arrive a point wherein Grace alone remains i.e., the one who had been seeking it has vanished: this is referred to as SELF REALISATION.